Kris Van Dijck (born 2 October 1963 in Turnhout) is a Belgian politician affiliated to the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), member of the Flemish Parliament and mayor of Dessel.

He was elected Speaker of the Flemish Parliament on 18 June 2019 but had to resign as Speaker due to the fact that he was caught drunk driving and because he was accused P-magazine which reported on 11 July 2019 that Mr Van Dijck connived to commit fraud together with a sex worker.

He was caught drunk driving[3] in July 2019 after causing a crash involving a parked trailer.

Subsequently he tried to downplay the seriousness of this infraction by saying “I haven’t committed any crime”.

However after accusations of fraud involving tax-money and prostitutes - claims he says are ungrounded - he decided to resign on 11 July 2019.